Motivational Quotes

Life

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Life

To a wise man every day is a new life.

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

10.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

12.

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

37.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace